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One Missed Call
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Shannyn Sossamon and Ed Burns star in director Eric Valette's remake of Takashi Miike's frightful tale about a cell-phone call from the future that foreshadows one's own death. Beth Raymond (Sossamon) is a college student whose friends have all been dying in droves, and the one connecting factor between all of the incidents is that just before their deaths, each of the victims received a message in which they heard themselves being murdered. Upon receiving her own frightening phone call, Beth has only three days to solve the mystery and cheat death. Burns co-stars as a detective who is deeply troubled by the recent spate of deaths.

No wonder the marketers at Warner Bros. did not preview this embarrassing clunker for critics. Anyone searching for an effective supernatural-horror fix in theatres right now should visit The Orphanage instead.

Audience Reviews for One Missed Call

½

It was okay. Actually starts off reasonably well. Liked Shannyn Sossamon and the brief appearance of Azura Skye. Goes downhill a bit after the first few deaths and loses it. Not a total disaster. Was fine for a late night TV viewing, but wouldn't want to have paid money for it.

Nicki Marie

Super Reviewer

As far as American J-horror remakes go, this might be the worst (and I've seen The Uninvited).

Jonathan Hutchings

Super Reviewer

One of the worst and most unnecessary remakes ever made.

Directors Cat

Super Reviewer

½

Before seeing this, I had heard many, many bad things about this film. Every review was negative. So, initially I passed up on it. But then, I just decided to watch, and to my surprise, it wasn't too bad. I thought the film was borderline decent considering all the flack the film received. I thought the film was eerie and had a lot of atmosphere, which I liked, but it lacked in character development. The parts where it was supposed to very creepy were good, and did work, but they could've been done slightly better. I enjoyed Edward Burns in this film, and I thought for a remake, it had a few decent scares. But of course this remake doesn't even come close to the original. For what it is, One Missed Call is actually fairly decent, and manages to be quite fun, if you forget that this is indeed a remake. But like every other remake, it fails to capture the essence of the original, and like with every other remake this remake tries to outdo the original with fancy special effects. The film is decent, managing only a few good scares. But this isn't as bad as everyone has said it was. Though nothing will beat the original, this Americanized version is fairly entertaining and manages to be quite fun if you allow it to be. But don't go in expecting something great, go in with decent expectations, and you might like this.